Tilt-shift craziness

Tilt-shift photography is basically a fancy way of tricking your camera into changing the way it focuses, creating an unrealistic blur effect. It's become pretty popular lately. God help me, I have no idea how it works, but I love looking at the photos it produces.
Through whatever trickery these photographers employ, the end result looks like you're shooting an intricately detailed model instead of the real thing.
Here, for example, is Clemson Memorial Stadium seen through this near-magic technique:
Now, Australian Keith Loutit has taken this one step further with his series "Bathtub," time-lapse videos of boats going in and out of various harbors around Sydney. The results are surreal and completely mind-blowing. Enjoy.
Bathtub II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.